Guild Wars 2

So i returned to GW2 and wanted to change server just because my ex L2 friends came here to Gantara.

I was surprised a lot that it costs 1800 GEM which is kinda like 1/3 of game cost.

Every1 thinks its okay?

Not only do people think it’s okay, but people insisted on it. The whole idea is to prevent people to just switch servers to the winning side in WvW.

When the game launched server swaps were free, and a lot of players complained about it. Even when you could only swap for free 1x per week, there were a lot of complaints. Some WvW want the price to be even higher.

And since you can PvE and SPvP with people on any server in your region (via guesting) there’s no reason to transfer at all, except WvW.

My entire guild just left Blackgate. The tier 1 WvW was/is sort of the same massive (MASSIVE) zerg vs zerg scenario. They wanted to go to an under-populated server and play more small coordinated groups around the maps. I don’t blame them I too had no wish to go to WvW any longer.
However, I have been on Blackgate since August. I like the aspect of Blackgate’s population in regards to PvE content. You are never alone, or at least not for long. Add to this the cost of a transfer and well…. It will be awhile before I join the guildies.
They have offered to pay for my transfer but I won’t let them. I’ll earn the gems the old fashioned way (working in RL) and transfer when I can.
The fee is pretty darned steep. I understand it’s there to keep people from hopping around purposely undermining other servers in WvW, but it still seems over-priced to me.

800 gems would have been a really good price point. Affordable yet at the same time costly enough to make you consider your choices.

EDIT: Vayne beat me to it. And yes the free transfer was unfair to competitors in WvW. I just think they went a little too high in the price range.

AskTheDust.7384:

So i returned to GW2 and wanted to change server just because my ex L2 friends came here to Gantara.

I was surprised a lot that it costs 1800 GEM which is kinda like 1/3 of game cost.

Every1 thinks its okay?

Do you play WvW a lot? If you don’t even touch WvW, you can just guest which is free.

The fee is fine. Other games charge you as well but at least in this game you have the option for converting gold to gems.

There is a reason why it’s so expensive and why you can still guest to other servers. It’s to prevent interfering in WvW matchups.

I would actually prefer it if you could not transfer with in game gold but instead had to pay cash.

TooBz.3065:

I would actually prefer it if you could not transfer with in game gold but instead had to pay cash.

+1
I agree with this, even if it seems contradictory to what I said. I saw people sabotage supplies in WvW when there were free transfers. It can still happen when players amass enough gold to where even 1800 gems worth of gold is a paltry sum to them.

Though I think the fee should be lowered along the lines of 800-1000gems; I think a stipulation to the lower price should be that it has to be bought using RL money. Unfortunately I don’t see a way for them to implement this.

Infernia.9847:

TooBz.3065:

I would actually prefer it if you could not transfer with in game gold but instead had to pay cash.

+1
I agree with this, even if it seems contradictory to what I said. I saw people sabotage supplies in WvW when there were free transfers. It can still happen when players amass enough gold to where even 1800 gems worth of gold is a paltry sum to them.

Though I think the fee should be lowered along the lines of 800-1000gems; I think a stipulation to the lower price should be that it has to be bought using RL money. Unfortunately I don’t see a way for them to implement this.

You know, if somehow wanted to waste 1800 gems to grief people (And not be able to play with their own server), then that guy loses way more than the server that got sabotaged. I wouldn’t even be mad.